We woke in La Jolla and it was a beautiful sunny morning, so we headed to long beach, where all the locals in San Diego go to play volleyball! We then drove up to the La Jolla cove, where we walked along the front first to see the seals and sea lions. There were loads of them all over the beach, making so much noise! They were just sunbathing and none seem bothered by humans, even though their beach was quite close to the path. The pupping season was just abo...

Today we first spent some time walking around the old quarter of San Diego, which was like walking through a Wild West film! It was full of saloons and old buildings, we really enjoyed just looking at the old streets. We then carried on walking right the way down through San Diego to Little Italy, an area of nice restaurants and bars in Downtown, taking a detour at the airport to sort our car hire for later that evening. From there we then went further down to t...

We got up early and headed over to the world famous San Diego zoo! I'm not normally a big fan of them, but most of the animals seemed to have loads of space and a natural native environment. It was massive and we spent the whole day wandering around. My favourites were the tigers, the hippos, and all the different types of monkey! It got me quite excited about going on safari in Africa.Later we went for dinner at a really nice Mexican place, as San Diego is...

Today was another arm related write off. We got an early flight to San Diego, which by some miracle arrived early! The insurance company were useless and hadn't managed to arrange an appointment for me with an orthopaedic surgeon (although we later found out from the clinic that they'd held an appointment for me but the insurance company just hadn't come back to them). We therefore had to dump our bags our at the motel then walk straight to the nearb...

Since reading the Devil and the White City, a book about the Chicago world fair at the end of the 19th century, I'd wanted to see the remaining buildings of the fair, which was meant to be incredible. After a well deserved pancake breakfast we headed over to the only remaining fair building - Chicago's famous Museum of Science and Industry. It was the fair's art building and was beautiful.We spent several hours looking around as it was really intere...